I believe this is a feature of syslogd that allows you to easily seperate
log entries based on time intervals. I know that you can disable it if
you want to, but I forget the exact file you need to edit. Sorry.
Keith
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There's ease of use and then there's ease of usefulness.
Choose usefulness. Choose Linux.
On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Frederic PLE wrote:
> I don t think so.
> This is taken from my /var/log/messages
>
> Sep 5 04:19:21 d169 -- MARK --
> Sep 5 04:39:21 d169 -- MARK --
> Sep 5 04:59:21 d169 -- MARK --
> Sep 5 05:19:21 d169 -- MARK --
> Sep 5 05:39:21 d169 -- MARK --
> Sep 5 05:59:21 d169 -- MARK --
> Sep 5 06:19:21 d169 -- MARK --
> Sep 5 06:39:21 d169 -- MARK --
> Sep 5 06:59:21 d169 -- MARK --
> Sep 5 07:19:21 d169 -- MARK --
> Sep 5 07:39:21 d169 -- MARK --
> Sep 5 07:59:21 d169 -- MARK --
> Sep 5 08:19:21 d169 -- MARK --
> Sep 5 08:39:21 d169 -- MARK --
> Sep 5 08:59:21 d169 -- MARK --
> Sep 5 09:19:21 d169 -- MARK --
> Sep 5 09:39:21 d169 -- MARK --
> Sep 5 09:59:21 d169 -- MARK --
> Sep 5 10:19:21 d169 -- MARK --
> Sep 5 10:39:21 d169 -- MARK --
> Sep 5 10:59:21 d169 -- MARK --
> Sep 5 11:19:21 d169 -- MARK --
>
> my system clock says now : Sun Sep 5 15:52:46 CEST 1999
>
> one thing is strange, I came back on my machine at about 11:30 (I did not log off)
>and from this time, no MARK!
>
>
> Jean-Michel Dault wrote:
>
> > I think that when there is a -- MARK -- that means the file has been
> > processed by the "logrotate" program, but either was too small or not old
> > enough to rotate.
> >
> > Jean-Michel Dault
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Frederic PLE wrote:
> >
> > > Date: Sun, 05 Sep 1999 12:55:19 +0200
> > > From: Frederic PLE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Subject: Re: [expert] log file : /var/log/messages
> > >
> > > Rehi
> > >
> > > Another question:
> > > I can see in my /var/log/messages some lines like :
> > > Sep 5 09:19:21 <my hostname> -- MARK --
> > >
> > > I don't know the meaning of that ...
> > >
> > > Any clue ?
> > >
> > >
> > > Frederic PLE wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi again.
> > > >
> > > > I would like to know why sometimes I have new files in /var/log called
>messages.1 messages.2 etc ?
> > > > Should I understand that regularly the system makes a backup called messages.x
>and reset the messages file ?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > >
> > > > ------------------------------------------------------
> > > > Frederic PLE
> > > >
> > > > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > ------------------------------------------------------
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > > --
> > >
> > > ------------------------------------------------------
> > > Frederic PLE
> > >
> > > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > ------------------------------------------------------
> > >
> > >
> > >
>
> --
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> ------------------------------------------------------
> Frederic PLE
>
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